.... Going to see "United 93" is a civic duty because Samuel Johnson was right: People more often need to be reminded than informed. After an astonishing 56 months without a second terrorist attack, this nation perhaps has become dangerously immune to astonishment....

The message of the movie is: We are all potential soldiers. And we all may be, at any moment, at the war's front, because in this war the front can be anywhere.

The hinge on which the movie turns are 13 words that a passenger speaks, without histrionics, as he and others prepare to rush the cockpit, shortly before the plane plunges into a Pennsylvania field. The words are: "No one is going to help us. We've got to do it ourselves." Those words not only summarize this nation's situation in today's war but also express a citizen's general responsibilities in a free society.

Mr. Will might meditate on WHY we haven't had any attacks in the last 56 months and credit the President. Mr. Will might also try to get over his dislike of the entire Bush family and quit sniping at every opportunity, but I won't hold my breath.

George Will pays $8.50 to see 'United 93' in a movie theatre and concludes:

"... The message of the movie is: We are all potential soldiers. And we all may be, at any moment, at the war's front, because in this war the front can be anywhere."

... and then he returned to his country estate with gated manned security, barricaded himself inside his library with his fancy works of literature, poured himself a 23-year old single malt Scotch on ice, and went right back to demanding that ordinary people turn in all of their firearms.

If your wife can watch History and National Geographic channel shows on 911 she can see this movie. There is no editorial content or significant character development; it's like you're a fly on the wall watching the day unfold at the air-traffic control and other centers. There is no violence that one doesn't see channel surfing during commericals. The time flys by.

The many actors playing their own rolls makes it. Ben Sliney should be nominated for an Oscar (that might make some Freepers care about that statue again). I'll be seeing UA93 again, for sure.

Mr. Will might meditate on WHY we haven't had any attacks in the last 56 months and credit the President. Mr. Will might also try to get over his dislike of the entire Bush family and quit sniping at every opportunity, but I won't hold my breath.

There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that... [f]urthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism

Truth matters not at all to Spielberg, and courage matters even less. To advance his fallacious argument, he has Golda Meir speak words she never said, never would have said and, obviously, cannot now disavow. Posthumous misappropriation is a preferred tactic of the abject coward.

Munich is less about Meir avenging the Munich massacre than it is about Bush waging the War on Terror. The historical Munich allusion of appeasement, self-loathing and psychologizing that is practiced so fastidiously by the American Lefttoday is key to understanding Spielberg.

The core of his anti-war argument: By fighting back, we become our enemy. Ironically, with Munich, the same can now be said of Spielberg.

Is Spielberg humanizing the terrorist really any different from Riefenstahl humanizing Hitler? If anything, Spielberg is more contemptible. Whereas Riefenstahl symbolizes the naïve actress and director who is induced to deal with devils, Spielberg is self-actuated and aware. Hollywood is DreamWorks, fantastical and unthinking and solipsistic by definition.

To mitigate its danger, people capable of critical thinking must take on Hollywood... and must do so in Hollywood venues.

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